After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
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Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#2Inkscape and Graphite have contributors...can the whole community be galvanized behind 'the one to rule them all'?
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#3I imagine a branding change will be in order before actually delivering anything to users?
While I could believe in the artist and their history of fighting off legal challenges, I am sceptical around the ability to (re)build even one of the mentioned tools for the budget. Adobe has an immense moat (hence its complete gall around subscription pricing) for a reason. Otherwise everyone would just be using GIMP.
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#4Remember those "day in the life of a Google Project Manager" videos, where they do nothing but hang out on Zoom meetings and pig out on free food and snacks?
Yeah, in many cases, those folks make roughly $235k/year. (And consume another $100k/year in lobster, shrimp, smoothies, and snickers bars.)
$235k is absolutely nothing for software development, and you probably won't be able to hire even one talented developer -- let alone a team -- with a war-chest that size.
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#5As someone who was trained extensively on Adobe products and is using them regularly, I can just recommend to give the Affinity tools a look. (They also got a summer sale running right now, so you can grab the whole suite for a $150 one time payment.)
They work really well, some things are just the same as in the Creative Cloud, and I'am not missing anything so far.
Sadly, the commercial world will mostly stick to Adobe, so I'll have to use that at work, too. Pricing for the Creative Cloud is just too high if you want to do it "for fun", though.
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#6Inkscape and Graphite have contributors...can the whole community be galvanized behind 'the one to rule them all'?
And Krita!!!
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#7I imagine a branding change will be in order before actually delivering anything to users? While I could believe in the artist and their history of fighting off legal challenges, I am sceptical around the ability to (re)build even one of the mentioned tools for the budget. Adobe has an immense moat (hence its complete gall around subscription pricing) for a reason. Otherwise everyone would just be using GIMP.
Actually, Serif has ventured surprisingly deeply into Adobe's territory.
I know professional designers that prefer Affinity for many projects. They still pay for Adobe, still use Adobe often (and agree that when they need it - Affinity is not yet close), but actually prefer Affinity for some projects.
Now, even taking on Affinity will cost more than a few hundred thou, but if you can get traction the sky is the limit.
One idea would be to fork Gimp, focus mostly on the UI, and allow for all changes to be pulled back upstream. That would essentially turn them into the steward for GiMP, but may give them access to talent that otherwise would be out of reach and that would split the community.
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#8Remember those "day in the life of a Google Project Manager" videos, where they do nothing but hang out on Zoom meetings and pig out on free food and snacks? Yeah, in many cases, those folks make roughly $235k/year. (And consume another $100k/year in lobster, shrimp, smoothies, and snickers bars.) $235k is absolutely nothing for software development, and you probably won't be able to hire even one talented developer…
Well, no. If everything is open source, $235K is good for perks and incentives - and to ensure that the project is alive and active.
People will do a whole lot when the incentive is not the paycheck.
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#9Remember those "day in the life of a Google Project Manager" videos, where they do nothing but hang out on Zoom meetings and pig out on free food and snacks? Yeah, in many cases, those folks make roughly $235k/year. (And consume another $100k/year in lobster, shrimp, smoothies, and snickers bars.) $235k is absolutely nothing for software development, and you probably won't be able to hire even one talented developer…
you probably won't be able to hire even one talented developer -- let alone a team -- with a war-chest that size
Maybe you're not aware of this thing called equity, and how it's often a part of an offer to a founding engineer..
Re: After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
#10I feel like the inevitable trademark dispute would not be in Semple's favor. He seems to think it's fine, probably because he's gotten away with it in the past due to "parody", but when you're actually selling a product that is the same as the product the other company is selling, I think it will be much harder to use that defense.